But in other cases, it's annoying as hell and makes no sense at all. I'm in the middle of renovating my house, and was recently looking at ceiling fans and vessel sinks online. Now I can't click on a site without seeing ads for sinks and fans, despite the fact that I made my selection and purchased them weeks ago.
For me, at this very moment Google does this to me. I'm using Kaspersky, and recently went to their site to download the 2011 version since I had a current license for it. Now, in a lot of places I go to, I see an ad for Kaspersky in a 'Ads by Google' box.
So, this is not new, and the only reason people are noticing it is that you are being served up the exact same ad on different websites, for a website you only visited once.
For example: http://live.linux-gamers.net/
Or, if your distro has lots of installable packages available as a rule (like Ubuntu), try poking through it's 'games' section.
Yes, these levels of security from the 'orange book' is what I was thinking about when I made an earlier post that recommended an OS from Green Hills Software. They sell an 'A1' level OS, called 'Integrity'.
See http://cyberwarfaremag.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/integrity-os-to-be-released-commercially/ or http://www.ghs.com/security/security_home.html
To quote Green Hills Software's web site:
INTEGRITY has been deployed for 10 years in systems that require absolute security and total reliability:
- Flying the Boeing B1-B intercontinental nuclear bomber, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Lockheed Martin's F-16, F-22 & F-35, and dozens of other aircraft
- Securing military computers, networks, routers, cell phones, and radios
- Widespread adoption in medical, industrial, and networking products
- Running a multitude of consumer products from printers to kitchen ovens
INTEGRITY can secure virtually any computer or computer controlled device from attack, even systems running operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, Palm OS, Symbian, or VxWorks, whether it is in a PC, server, networking equipment, embedded system, smart phone, or critical infrastructure. INTEGRITY has more than a decade of fielded deployment in the following industries:
Medical
Industrial
Avionics & Aerospace
Automotive
Financial
Consumer
Government
Defense
I found this place by wondering what was the most secure OS out there and did any OS get a TCSEC A1 security level rating? NT was built for a C2 level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenstone_(software)
-- From Grenstone's Web Site --
About Greenstone:
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections.
It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM.
Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO.
It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Read the Greenstone Factsheet for more information.
The aim of the Greenstone software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries.
Digital libraries are radically reforming how information is disseminated and acquired in UNESCO's partner communities and institutions in the fields of education, science and culture around the world, and particularly in developing countries.
We hope that this software will encourage the effective deployment of digital libraries to share information and place it in the public domain. Further information can be found in the book 'How to build a digital library', authored by two of the group's members.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
